# Refresh statistics

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/refresh-statistics/28644>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 3, 2015, 10:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/refresh-statistics/28644 "2015-09-03T22:00:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Ilija\_Subasic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ee7513/32.png) [@Ilija\_Subasic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ilija_Subasic)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 10:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/refresh-statistics/28644/1 "2015-09-03T22:00:36Z")

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Hi,  
I am having issues with my cluster. I had set the refresh rate at 30s to spped things up, but when I look at the index stats refresh.total is rising quite dramatically (e.g. 1500 refreshes in 5 minutes). Is the refresh statistic telling me how much refresh operations happened in total?  
And does anyone know what time shows, is it the total time needed to complete refreshes?

Thanks,  
ILija

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**Author:** ![msimos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@msimos](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/msimos)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 12:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/refresh-statistics/28644/2 "2015-09-04T00:49:03Z")

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Make sure when you set the refresh rate you use "30s" and not just "30".

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**Author:** ![Ilija\_Subasic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ee7513/32.png) [@Ilija\_Subasic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ilija_Subasic)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 1:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/refresh-statistics/28644/3 "2015-09-04T01:22:51Z")

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hi thanks.  
We use puppet for settings. And we set 30 (not 30s) there. However when  
retrieving index setting 30s is returned as index.refresh\_rate. So i guess  
it is correctly set.  
03.09.2015. 02.59 PM, "Mike Simos" [noreply@discuss.elastic.co](mailto:noreply@discuss.elastic.co) је  
написао/ла:

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**Author:** ![Ilija\_Subasic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ee7513/32.png) [@Ilija\_Subasic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ilija_Subasic)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 9:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/refresh-statistics/28644/4 "2015-09-04T09:51:56Z")

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Does anyone know what refresh\_interval value in \_nodes output means? When I update my settings I see the value in the \_settings endpoint change, but not in the \_nodes endpoint.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/refresh-statistics/28644/5 "2017-07-05T23:52:04Z")

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